The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-02
DIR. FALL1aANr STRIKES BACK.

Doesn't Meet the Issue Squarely-The
Doctor also Intimates that the Colonel
Got Mixed on Gas and Bacteriology.
Editor Morning NetCs: When a criticism
of my house drainage p ans for Savannah
appears in your columns over the signature
of "Col. George E. Waring, Civil Engi-
neer, etc." the presumption naturally is
| that he has been exact in his statements,
and that they are based on facts. 1t will
probably surprise you to see that he has not
! been exact.
What stated was that fall Of 10 feet
could be gotten at any point along the East
! Broad street sewer, as compared with the
surface level at West Broad street, and that
Is feet in 1900 feet gave $50 inches, or AZ
inches to every 100 feet more jail than Col.
Warning claims for part of his plans. In
no part of my papers have l claimed AZ
| inches or Whereabouts as a necessary rail-
encept when the flow of the flush current
was dependent upon its grade fall, which
is the case with the Warning system. A fail
of . inches in 100 feet from West Broad to
East Broad street, with good flush current,
will work well, and the fall can
be placed at any figure between 2 and Al
inches to the hundred feet, and be made to
work perfectly by the amount and force Of
the flush Col. Warnings calculations
racy. The level from Bay to South Broad
along West Broad, and the level from Bay
to South Broad along East Broad is about
the same so that the fall in sewer grade
from West Broad TO East Broad is to be OBJ
tanned between the surface at West Broad
and the sewer level at East Broad-15 feet:
that is the top of the old sewer. Now
if the sewer is Is feet below the surface at
East Broad and the lane pipe should be
lY,lo hnIOxu "a MT
the average depth would be 9 feet. How
Col Warning figures 21.2 at East Broad is a
mystery. He has evidently got q little
nli,Ded in his efforts or determination to
bounce my plans. A fall Of inches in
hundred feet, beginning at feet below the
surfact at West Broad, and extending to
East Broad, would give so inches to 1000
feet, or less than Z feet in the entire length.
The average depth of the lane sewer
below the surface would be 615 feet instead
of 154 as wrongly stated by Col. Waring.
The heavier cut in the eastern portions of
the grade extend only between Bay street
and South Broad street lanes; beyond
which, and for the entire section south of
Liberty street, there is a natural grade fall,
very materially reducing the depth of the
cut
In regard to the quicksand SltbSod, Col
Warning is either very unfamiliar with the
localities of its existence. or he has been i'm
posed on in the facts. There is not a spot
between Bay, South Broad West Broad and
East Broad streets, within the levels neces-
sary for my lane sewers, where quicksand
exists within IL to Is feet of the surface;
and in the southeast section of the city,
where it does exist, the natural grade fall
gives my lane sewers all the depth they need
| Without striking quicksdnd. 10 use Col.
Warnings language, 1.-THE natural conditions
| Improve as we go south from the river"
Now the average cut of the Congress
street alley on a grade of inches fall would
be 61% feet-3 feet at West Broad, and 10
feet at East Broad. Even at AZ inches to
| 100 feet, the average would be 8 feet instead
of 1872, as enormously figured by the
| Colonel. Col. Warning commits very seri-
GUS error when he gets my Alice street sew
er-head liz below the surface. do not
propose to put the heads very far below the
| surface at any point, and the incline is to be
from west to east, and not from north to
south. If Col. Warning can start pipe 5
feet below the surface at West Broad, give
| it fall of inches only in a hundred feet,
instead of 4, and find it 4 inches only below
the surface at Jefferson street, on its way
| east, he must have struck q hole that needs
| filling up. There are some such in that 10
| caitY and not quite such an absndity,
either, as Col. Warning calls it.
OF course my system will require water
main along West Broad street. That is
exactly my plan, and instead of depending
upon the automatic action of his 100-gallon
| flush tanks, we will have the Savannah
river 1or our supply, rather more reliable
| | should think. 1t would be interesting to
learn how the Colonel proposes to supply
his flush tanks. either by the steam pump,
or from the the stand-pipe, [ imagine: and
| might say that the stand-pipe would be
| q little safer. the steam pump might burst
| h xralx fnpnttorb no mot &c
poured into his tanks! he'd better look
out!
Indeed, to be square, Col. Warning, don't
you depend upon udlueS or checks of some
| kind to keep too much water from rushing
into your flush tanks! ana can't we regu-
late the stand-pipe pressure just as well
| You make quite hurrah about the danger
| to the vitritied pipes from the stand-pipe
pressure when you know even better than
do that it is entirely under your control by
tie r0tUe and by the quantity Of tCdter IN
! the stand pipe-the pressure being abso-
lutely determined thereby. Then why don't
you honestly say 500
l have never proposed at any time to
put the entire pressure of the stand pipe on
| the sewer. ! have distinctly stated that we
had this power at our command, paid for,
| Il am obliged to you for saying that it has
| eUen more poiCeF than we need, which en-
ables us to reduce the grade fall-some peo-
pie in Savannah doubted whether it had
power enoughD and that this power was
perfectly comfortable by valve and pressure,
or the quantity of water kept in the stand
pipe.
The square way for you to do battle in
your own behalf is to explicitly deny these
| declarations-if you think them wrong.
Your assertions about your lateral open
| ings being better than the top openings for
the reason that the top openings drive back
sewer gas, and your lateral openings don't,
is too absurd for discussion. Send me a
copy of the work on gas out of which you
got that idea. 1t has the novelty of being
RetC, if it is nonsensical Asto your smooth
flow of sewer and house drain" and your
method Of improving its smoothneSs by
putting in as many breaks to its smoothness
as you can with your lateral openings, your
arguments are simply baseless. l really
thought you were smarter. Distance lends
enchantment, u etc
| Your advocates in Memphis claim much
| for the pulrerizing of the solids by the flow
of the current, whilst your later knowledge
of bdcterioiogy induces You to avoid Sprau
| These two ideas are not consistent. When
the pipes are secured out by a good flush
current, where will your gases find origin:
| 1t is always wise, Col. Waring, to recog.
nize that other people in the world may be
as wise as you. The plans proposed by me
have been submitted to gentlemen quite as
|